By October the maples around Trinity Park and the Macdonough Monument have given up most of what they held, and Plattsburgh yards fill with them overnight. Upstate Hardscape LLC handles the season's ending — mowing while there is still growth, cleanups that pull leaves out of the beds and off the turf, borders recut before the ground hardens. Fall work is really a favor to April, because grass that goes into a Champlain Valley winter clean and cut short comes out of it thicker. There is a specific pleasure in a bare, striped lawn at dusk with the last light coming off the lake. It looks finished, because it is.